Konrad Smiarowski

Biographic Data

ID232348
NAMEKonrad Smiarowski
GIVEN NAMESKonrad
FAMILY NAMESmiarowski
SIGNATURESMIAROWSKI K
AFFILIATIONSThe Graduate Center, CUNY
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS67
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • A millennium of Icelandic archaeological fish data examined against marine climate records

    Open AccessGeorge Hambrecht, Frank Feeley et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022

    This article combines new marine fish faunal data from medieval and early modern Icelandic archaeological sites with previously published data that focused primarily on the Settlement and Commonwealth periods. This synthesis places these new data into the larger scale of Icelandic history and marine conditions (sea-surface temperature and sea ice) to identify patterns and trends across the last 1000 years of the relationship between humans and Ic…

  • Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (Donop)

    Open AccessGeorge Hambrecht, Cecilia Anderung et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2020

  • Disequilibrium, Adaptation, and the Norse Settlement of Greenland

    Open AccessRowan Jackson, Jette Arneborg et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2018

    There is increasing evidence to suggest that arctic cultures and ecosystems have followed non-linear responses to climate change. Norse Scandinavian farmers introduced agriculture to sub-arctic Greenland in the late tenth century, creating synanthropic landscapes and utilising seasonally abundant marine and terrestrial resources. Using a niche-construction framework and data from recent survey work, studies of diet, and regional-scale climate pro…

  • The Wide Lens in Archaeology

    Open AccessJeffrey A Blakely, Inbar Ktalav et al.BOOKWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • Flair of the Dog The Philistine Consumption of Canines

    Open AccessJustin Lev-Tov, Paula Hesse et al.CHAPTERWide Lens in Archaeology2017

    This book honors the memory of Brian Hesse, a scholar of Near Eastern archaeology, a writer of alliterative and punned publication titles, and an accomplished amateur photographer. Hesse specialized in zooarchaeology, but he influenced a wider range of excavators and ancient historians with his broad interpretive reach. He spent much of his career analyzing faunal materials from different countries in the Middle East-including Iran, Yemen, and Is…

  • Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

    Open AccessMargaret C Nelson, E Ingram et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2016

    Significance Climate-induced disasters are impacting human well-being in ever-increasing ways. Disaster research and management recognize and emphasize the need to reduce vulnerabilities, although extant policy is not in line with this realization. This paper assesses the extent to which vulnerability to food shortage, as a result of social, demographic, and resource conditions at times of climatic challenge, correlates with subsequent declines i…

  • Islands of change vs. islands of disaster: Managing pigs and birds in the Anthropocene of the North Atlantic

    Open AccessSeth Brewington, M Hicks et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2015Cited by: 11References: 19

    The offshore islands of the North Atlantic were among some of the last settled places on earth, with humans reaching the Faroes and Iceland in the late Iron Age and Viking period. While older accounts emphasizing deforestation and soil erosion have presented this story of island colonization as yet another social–ecological disaster, recent archaeological and paleoenvironmental research combined with environmental history, environmental humanitie…

  • Was it for walrus? Viking Age settlement and medieval walrus ivory trade in Iceland and Greenland

    Karin Margarita Frei, Ashley N Coutu et al.ARTICLEWorld Archaeology2015Cited by: 42References: 27

    Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations …

  • Seals and Sea Ice in Medieval Greenland

    Open AccessA E J Ogilvie, James Woollett et al.ARTICLEJournal of the North Atlantic2009Cited by: 7References: 37

    Multidisciplinary approaches are used to examine possible changes in North Atlantic sea-ice cover, in the context of seal hunting, during the period of the Norse occupation of Greenland (ca. 985–1500). Information from Iceland is also used in order to amplify and illuminate the situation in Greenland. Data are drawn mainly from zooarchaeological analyses, but written records of climate and sea-ice variations, as well as paleoclimatic data sets ar…

  • Fishing Booths and Fishing Strategies in Medieval Iceland: An Archaeofauna from the of Akurvík, North-West Iceland

    Colin Amundsen, Perdikari et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2005Cited by: 7References: 5

    Excavations in 1990 in North-West Iceland documented a stratified series of small turf structures and associated midden deposits at the eroding beach at Akurvík which date from the 11th–13th to the 15th–16th centuries AD. The site reflects a long series of small discontinuous occupations, probably associated with seasonal fishing. The shell sand matrix had allowed excellent organic preservation and an archaeofauna of over 100, 000 identifiable fr…